Prof Toby Brandon

Professor

Department: Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing

Toby Brandon has a long-standing interest in empowerment, inclusion and engagement, regionally developing a network of contacts within Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust and third sector organisations, including ReCoCo, Chilli Studios and The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company.

He publishes on mental health, advocacy, hate crime and participatory and co-productive research methodologies. His research outputs being part of the Research Excellence Framework for Social Policy and Social Work (UoA 20).

Toby lectures in the developing academic field of Mad Studies.

Campus Address

Room H019, Coach Lane Campus East
Benton
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE7 7XA

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Key Publications

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Developing and Implementing Teaching in Sensitive Subject and Topic Areas: A Comprehensive Guide for professionals in FE and HE Settings , McGovern, W., Gillespie, A., Brandon, T., McInnes, A. 5 Feb 2024
Making a difference for the future: the views of Educators by experience about their involvement in social work education, Lonbay, S., Brandon, T., O'Driscoll, S. 19 Sep 2023, In: Social Work Education
The introduction and development of a mental health integrated support unit within an English Prison: clinical, care staff and Operational Officer perspectives, McClelland, N., Brandon, T., Dyer, W., Cassidy, K., Ridley, L., Biddle, P. 1 Feb 2023, In: Journal of Forensic Practice
Use of a targeted, computer/web-based guided self-help psychoeducation toolkit for distressing hallucinations (MUSE) in people with an at-risk mental state for psychosis: protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial, Hamilton, J., Arnott, B., Aynsworth, C., Barclay, N., Birkett, L., Brandon, T., Dixon, L., Dudley, R., Einbeck, J., Gibbs, C., Kharatikoopaei, E., Simpson, J., Dodgson, G., Fernyhough, C. 30 Jun 2023, In: BMJ Open
Prisoners with Severe Mental Illnesses and Everyday Prison Interior (Re)design, Cassidy, K., Dyer, W., Biddle, P., Ridley, L., Brandon, T., McClelland, N. 4 Dec 2022, The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Design, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
Implications for mental health workforce strategy, professional training and supervision of more widespread adoption of the multi-professional Responsible Clinician role: Results of a qualitative inquiry, Oates, J., Burrell, C., Ebrahim, S., Taylor, J., Veitch, P., Brandon, T. 1 May 2021, In: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
Social Workers’ Negotiation of the Liminal Space Between Personalisation Policy and Practice, Southall, C., Lonbay, S., Brandon, T. 4 Mar 2021, In: European Journal of Social Work
The Development of a Prison Mental Health Unit in England: Understanding Realist Context(s)., Dyer, W., Cassidy, K., Ridley, L., Biddle, P., McClelland, N., Brandon, T. 3 Apr 2021, In: International Journal of Forensic Mental Health
Extending Voice and Autonomy Through Participatory Action Research: Ethical and Practical Issues: Reflections on a Workshop held at Durham University, November 2018, Kong, S., Banks, S., Brandon, T., Chappell, S., Charnley, H., Hwang, S., Rudd, D., Shaw, S., Slatcher, S., Ward, N. 2020, In: Ethics & Social Welfare
Making space for mental health care within the penal estate, Cassidy, K., Dyer, W., Biddle, P., Brandon, T., McClelland, N., Ridley, L. 1 Mar 2020, In: Health and Place

Professional Activity

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Other: RWIRE Website 2013

PGR Supervision

Annessa Rebair Meeting Spaces; Crafting conversations about suicide in nurse education Start Date: 03/09/2015 End Date: 11/06/2019
Rosaleen McDonagh From Shame to Pride: The Politics of Disabled Traveller Identity Start Date: 27/09/2013 End Date: 06/11/2019
Carole Southall Social Workers' Experience of Assessing Capacity and 'Best Interest' Decision Making Under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Start Date: 11/10/2012 End Date: 15/06/2017
Keith Ford 'Daring to Peek Over The Wall': A Qualitative Exploration of The Concept of Remission in The Process of Recovery For People With Schizophrenia Start Date: 06/09/2010 End Date: 25/02/2016
Sarah Beck The nature, purpose and effects of conditions attached to standard deprivation of liberty authorisations (mental Capacity Act 2005) Start Date: 02/10/2012 End Date: 01/06/2016
Sarah Lonbay Bridges and Barriers: Exploring the Involvement of Older People in Adult Safeguarding Start Date: 18/09/2013 End Date: 08/10/2015
Charmaine Agius Ferrante A Case Study of Inclusion, Respect and Dignity: Whole School Approach Using the Social Model of Disability Start Date: 09/03/2006 End Date: 09/08/2012
Amy Swift ‘They haven’t ever discussed my feelings. I wish they would’: How Obstetric Brachial Plexus Palsy (OBPP) affects mental wellbeing in children: A Mixed-Methods Approach Start Date: 28/09/2020
Cathryn Meredith Safeguarding people who lack mental capacity due to dementia: an ethnographic case study Start Date: 01/10/2016
Emmanouil Gratsias Not for them or on them: Exploring advocacy outcomes with people, with learning difficulties Start Date: 06/04/2011 End Date: 28/09/2021
Annessa Rebair Meeting Spaces; Crafting conversations about suicide in nurse education Start Date: 03/09/2015 End Date: 11/06/2019

Qualifications

Teaching & Learning PCAPL September 15 2005
PhD June 30 1999
Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2015

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